I suppose – if you have the disposable income, and want to help enrich and encourage Amazon’s fee for use DRM encumbered distribution system. Sure. It isn’t like there are any alternatives – right?
Well – let’s see. For ~$50 and a used Palm off of eBay I can load books galore. I don’t have to pay usurious Amazon fees to translate the works either. I can use Gutenberg and “plucker” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plucker) to grab – for free – tons of content. If I *have* to have DRM’d books – most anything available for the Kindle can be loaded as well. Fits in a pocket much more easily than the Kindle – and is much less expensive to replace. I also put text on my iPod using iPodlibrary – not for everyone, but works for me. If I have to read my gmail -I can do *that* with my phone.
[Oh and "Eclectic Reader World Series" reading? Give me a break. I've got Ancient literature, medieval, and modern. SF from Baen books, Burroughs and Verne. Essays from Chesterton and more. I'm sure the Kindle is nice, but ... besides having a library in my pocket - my old Palm PDA left something else - money.]
